Ships
January 1980
TERM 1
A day-by-day account of
Waen’s first term at
Fairburn School
TERM 2
The birth of the 1980s -
Blake’s 7, Blondie and
battles in space
Topic confusion continues with yet another new
topic for consideration - this time copied from The
Ladybird Book of Talking Down to Kids. No idea why I
picked out something so obviously below my reading
standard - presumably because there was nothing
else available - but I can’t imagine I enjoyed it. Maybe
the stuff I’d been doing the past few weeks was a
little info-heavy, but there’s no way I would have
deliberately scaled it back this much. Plus I had zero
interest in ships and/or anything aquatic. Thinking
about them now is giving me a headache. So if this
wasn’t a punishment, it certainly must have felt like
one.
But even though it’s so alarmingly babyish, I still
manage to get the title wrong. Even a landlubber like
me knows that boats and ships are entirely different
things, and the captain is likely to get mighty
offended if you dumb his ship down to boat status.
This text is clearly about boats. The only reason I’ll
forgive myself for this is if the book I copied it all
from was actually called ‘Ships’ and I don’t see that
being especially likely.
Beyond that, there’s not much to say. The pictures
are awful. What is that wobbly stuff on the first page?
Are they clouds? Is it smoke? What’s that bizarre
structure in the water? Are the boys sailing towards a
burning oil rig? Maybe if it’s an oil disaster, that
might explain why I was so interested in it. That I
could go for. The Ladybird Book of Marine Oil
Disasters.
I did try looking to see if I could find out what book
this actually is, but no luck so far. The one thing I
have learned is that Ladybird books were actually on
the whole far more verbose and in-depth than this.
Which doesn’t help. Good job I only did two pages of
it then. Next stop: Sport!
Waen Shepherd 2
Waen’s heroic antics in
the far-flung future of
2007 AD!
Giant Karza!
Arch-enemy of the
Micronauts grows to
super size!
Optical Illusion Time
Amazing visual tricks
that will boggle your
mind!
The Origin of Electro
Waen Shepherd, TV
Star, turns evil and
drains the city!